I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”-
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
